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⚠ VulnerabilityBleepingComputer·61d ago

Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot

A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. [...]

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Originally published by BleepingComputer

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-admits-to-extortion-plot-locking-coworkers-out-of-thousands-of-windows-devices/

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